TopBuzz

Four former ByteDance employees say the company promoted pro-China content to Americans in its now-defunct news app TopBuzz; ByteDance denies the claims

things like videos of pandas and a CEO talking about how great it was to move his start-up to China. 3 former employees say these pieces of content were sometimes “pinned” to the top of the app feed. ...

ByteDance shuts down TopBuzz, its AI-based news aggregator that is an overseas equivalent of its Chinese news app, Jinri Toutiao

ByteDance shuts down TopBuzz, its AI-based news aggregator that is an overseas equivalent of its Chinese news app, Jinri Toutiao

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz … Tweets: @serena Tweets: @serena : Holy...

Sources: China's ByteDance is in talks to sell TopBuzz, the English language version of its Chinese AI-powered news aggregator Toutiao

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A look at TopBuzz, the English version of ByteDance's Chinese AI-powered news aggregator Toutiao, that rose from 1.8M MAUs in Nov. 2017 to 23M MAUs by Oct. 2018

The MIT Technology Review called it “the insanely popular Chinese news app that you've never heard of.” Tweets: @michellemanafy See also Mediagazer Tweets: Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy : TikTok p...